church

oh, so many anxiety dreams last night! i can't remember them all.

i do remember being in a church with small wooden seats stadium-style with a steep incline. it kind of reminded me of the tabernacle in ocean grove (that my high-school church choir friends and i liked to call the 'table-knacker'). so i was sitting in one of these seats with my coat and my new queen bee bag at my feet. a friend was sitting next to me and complained that it was too hot/cold (i can't remember which, because someone else nearby complained of the exact opposite). i felt perfectly comfortable, but decided to join my friend in search of other seats.

there was a minister who had just started talking and was wandering among the congregation. we chose to get up and move right when he got near us. we actually squeezed by him in the narrow aisle, rudely, as we left. we found other seats and then it was time to sing a hymn. i said to my friend that i was going to run to the bathroom but i'd be back by the end of the hymn (which had four verses). she joined me, but apparently many other women in church that day had the same idea and there was a loooooooooooong line.

it was finally my turn, and i saw that my sister was there, too. the bathroom was unfortunately not very clean. sis finished her bathroomly stuff before me and headed off, much to my dismay as she had things i wanted to borrow in her bag (a hairbrush, maybe?). i followed her. i think we missed church.